Hi Steph
Are you sure your not speaking about our DS5, one minute he is 5 maybe even 3-4, the next he is 7-9. It's a bumpy road. As far as I know you cannot test higher then what you are, (Unless you took the test before). You can test lower based upon conditions. I like te term GT Denial, it sort of fits. Th hard part is when you see other childern that are MG, we keep looking for the chid prodigy. Our DS5 can do math fairly well, easy to measure. He's not able to just tell me quickly what 8 x 9 is, but he can figure it out on his own (8x10=80 less 8 for 72). But he does not just know the answer, or do exponents, or mentally add 4 to 6 didgit numbers. We sometimes expect to see extroadnary, TV game show type of stuff. Each child is also different in streangths. One day I was helping him with mental math (lets say 498 - 235, he had a hard time with changing the 498 to 500, then removing the 2 later). It took him a while to understand this, I was thinking, he schould be able to understand quickly the concept. To me this was easy math, my expectations are way off when I look at what they are doing in K. It is taking us time to know when to help him, and when to give him space. We don't push him he mostly pulls us. It's a balance that as a parent you will proably always second guess.
